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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This latest stylistic achievement of the septuagenarian Ashbery can in no way be misidentified as "autumnal," as a recent review in the Kirkus Review put it. Rather, it is a fresh voice from a master of contemporary avant-garde poetry, who has capitalized on the current trend toward the acceptance of a broader definition of free form verse...

Author: By John Ashbery, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads Modern Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Rather, it is a fresh voice from a master of contemporary avant-garde poetry, who has capitalized on the current trend toward the acceptance of a broader definition of free-form verse...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to the Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads American Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Murdock, who served as both Master of Leverett House and Dean of the Faculty, illustrated his point to Heimert by telling him about how he would write letters back and forth from the Leverett House Master to the Dean of the Faculty-addressed to and signed by Murdoc himself...

Author: By Alan Heimert, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City on a Hill: Heimert Keeps the Harvard Flame Ablaze | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Hillary didn't try to stop her. So why doesn't she just announce, already? Natural caution, for one thing -- Clinton is famously overprepared for everything. And the move keeps her name out there without having to actually take any positions as a candidate. "Reagan was the master of this," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "In '84 he generated a lot of publicity simply by refusing to say whether he would run for a second term even though it was obvious he would." To use a 2000 analogy, she'd rather be phantom front-runner George W. Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock! Hillary Is (Almost Definitely) Running | 6/3/1999 | See Source »

...Interior to Sharansky's party, which also demands the Housing Ministry as vital to new immigrants. Sharansky says he has no problems working with the "very bright and very intellectual" Barak, though they won't be playing chess again, as they did during the campaign. The Russian, an accomplished master, checkmated Barak in seven moves. In politics, too, Sharansky is nobody's pawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sharansky: Nobody's Pawn | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

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